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Books / June 2012

The Walrus Reads

June 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Matthew McKinnon

Seven new titles of note

June 2012

Calgary Reconsidered

June 12, 2012April 15, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Six truths about the city that’s no longer, simply, Cowtown

Arts & Culture / June 2012

Editor’s Note

June 1, 2012April 14, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

However much we may admire the United States, there are American practices Canadians choose not to emulate. No recent event illustrates the point more clearly than the shooting of a …

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Environment / May 2012

Hurricane Surfing

May 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Lyndsie Bourgon

Nova Scotia’s free surfers search for dangerous waves—and keep them secret

May 2012

On Growing Up White Trash

May 12, 2012June 15, 2020 - by Heather O'Neill

A writer comes to terms with the culture of her birth

May 2012

Of Culture and Condos

May 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

Shortly before he died, the literary critic Northrop Frye foresaw an insidious cultural phenomenon: Canada’s “condominium mentality”

Arts & Culture / May 2012

Stories With Legs

May 12, 2012October 25, 2019 - by Kaija Pepper

Danced in socks and bare feet, Crystal Pite’s edgy choreography has been dubbed the future of ballet. “Modern dance” is an outdated term. Maybe “ballet” is, too